From what I’ve been told over the years by various different head people, the overlap between the outward symptoms of cptsd and autism is somewhat large.
The underlying causes are usually very different, but the expression has enough overlap that they always check for cptsd markers and questions.
In my anecdotal experience, of course.
It’s also entirely possible to have both, which makes it even more complex.
This is true from what I’ve read. Autistic people tend to suffer long term traumas due to being treated a certain way due to their autism THEN learning to mask those less accepted behaviors in order to fit in. Forcing a square peg into a round hole is soul crushing.
Forcing a square peg into a round hole is soul crushing.
In that same vein, being a round peg in a square hole, nominally “fitting,” but being constantly hounded to fill in all of the corners all at once all of the time is exhausting.
They can, and do, but that’s not exactly what i was getting at.
I was saying that a (hypothetical) person, completely free of autistic traits can acquire traits very similar to how autism is expressed purely through CPTSD experience.
I fully agree that you can get ASD + CPTSD for the extra special double dose of the fun times, but it’s possible to have one without the other.
From what I’ve been told over the years by various different head people, the overlap between the outward symptoms of cptsd and autism is somewhat large.
The underlying causes are usually very different, but the expression has enough overlap that they always check for cptsd markers and questions.
In my anecdotal experience, of course.
It’s also entirely possible to have both, which makes it even more complex.
This is true from what I’ve read. Autistic people tend to suffer long term traumas due to being treated a certain way due to their autism THEN learning to mask those less accepted behaviors in order to fit in. Forcing a square peg into a round hole is soul crushing.
In that same vein, being a round peg in a square hole, nominally “fitting,” but being constantly hounded to fill in all of the corners all at once all of the time is exhausting.
They can, and do, but that’s not exactly what i was getting at.
I was saying that a (hypothetical) person, completely free of autistic traits can acquire traits very similar to how autism is expressed purely through CPTSD experience.
I fully agree that you can get ASD + CPTSD for the extra special double dose of the fun times, but it’s possible to have one without the other.